Volkswagen Brings A Gun To A Knife Fight
22 December 2009
While GM and Chrysler have wallowed around in government muck and mire, Toyota has struggled to stop their steady slide toward becoming the next GM, a…
Value Or Not To Value That Is The Question
17 December 2009
by BILL WADDELL Since I wrote The Lean Ratio the other day the comments and opinions have come in fast and furiously. The concept of what is value a…
Primum Non Nocere vs the Strategy of Idiots
17 December 2009
The title is the Latin fundamental, "First do no harm" which is drilled into the heads of just about everyone going into medicine. It seems…
The Lean Ratio
16 December 2009
I get lots of questions about metrics. We seem to be a culture obsessed with measuring things, and the idiotic notion that we can't manage anythin…
Quit Groveling and Get Lean
13 December 2009
Taiichi Ohno said, when asked what the Toyota Production System was all about, "All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the…
Vanity Without Merit
7 December 2009
"How vain, without the merit, is the name," wrote Homer. He was writing about Hector - trashing him for claiming epic accomplishments, witho…
Under Pressure Down Under
30 November 2009
As you are reading this I am in the Land Down Under for the first time - I have been to China and Europe more times than I care to remember, and have…
In The End Value Is All That Matters
29 November 2009
The big money people around the world are in a full blown panic over the financial implosion in Dubai. The state owned bank there says it is about $35…